Pastors / Leadership Archives

As believers, I am not sure we have any other option but the Gospel Option. We must plant or cultivate churches. We must disciple believers.

My hope cannot be found in my rule keeping or performance before the Lord. So, why do we love rules?

Culture is the comprehensive, penetrating context that encompasses our life and thought, art and speech, entertainment and sensibility, values and...

The highest compliment the pastor could give was to dial that brother first when a crisis occurred.

Maybe I’m just a toenail, but the body needs that toenail, and I can only do what the body needs if I am connected and healthy.

Some things you will never figure out in this life. Some mysteries you will eventually see–or the Spirit will reveal them to you or someone much...

Refusing to forgive someone is spiritual suicide.

Jesus warns his followers many times in the Bible that they will suffer for their faith and be persecuted. As Christians in the West, it’s tempting...

Over the years I’ve seen that one of the most powerful moments in a new believer’s life is the realization that there is such a thing as a false...

Even though I’ve been a Christian for almost 30 years, there are still things I don’t remember hearing from the pulpit.

The core of the Easter message is the new life available to every person because of the redemption Jesus provided through his death and...

I wish that churches prepared for every weekend like Easter weekend.

Rod Dreher’s book The Benedict Option has gained a foothold in the minds of many. David Brooks from the NYTimes calls The Benedict Option “the most...

If we take a moment to consider the root of our disagreement we may discover that our differences are simply preferences and not primaries.

It is incredibly difficult when someone chooses the world over Christ, something that is unfathomable to many of us.